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New Zealand Continental Shelf

This dataset provides the boundary of New Zealand’s continental shelf, which is the area of seabed around a large land mass where the sea is relatively shallow compared with the open ocean.


The continental shelf is the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond the territorial sea of a coastal state throughout the natural prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin.

In New Zealand’s case, the continental margin extends beyond the Exclusive Economic Zone in many places and the outer limits have been established on the basis of the recommendations of the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. Under UNCLOS, New Zealand exercises sovereign rights over the continental shelf for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources.


Note: The boundary includes, where applicable, the delimitation of the boundaries of the continental shelf with Australia under the treaty of 25 July 2004. The delimitation of the maritime boundaries in the north with Fiji, Tonga and possibly France in respect of New Caledonia, have yet to be settled by treaty.


Maritime Boundary Definitions:

http://www.linz.govt.nz/hydro/nautical-info/maritime-boundaries/definitions#zones


Further References:

http://www.linz.govt.nz/hydro/nautical-info/maritime-boundaries

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2011-07-21
Date (Revision)
2019-03-20
Status
On going
Point of contact
Role Organisation Electronic mail address
Resource provider

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand

hydro@linz.govt.nz

Topic category
  • Oceans

Extent

Geographic identifier
nzl

Title

ANZMet Lite Country codelist

Date (Publication)
2009-03-31
Edition

Version 1.0

Edition date
2009-03-31
Citation identifier
http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/profileinfo/anzlic-country.xml#Country

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation Electronic mail address
Custodian

ANZLIC the Spatial Information Council

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title

*.xml

Date
Edition

Unknown

ANZLIC Jurisdictions
  • New Zealand

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Use limitation

Copyright of this work is owned by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand


© LINZ

Use constraints
Copyright

Resource constraints

Use limitation

Released by LINZ under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) with:


Following Attribution:


"Sourced from the LINZ Data Service and licensed for reuse under CC BY 4.0"


For details see https://www.linz.govt.nz/data/licensing-and-using-data/attributing-linz-data


Following Disclaimers:

This data: does not replace official ENCs; should not be used for navigation; are not corrected for Notices to Mariners. For navigation, mariners should use official New Zealand ENCs as available from chart retailers.

Use constraints
License
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

OnLine resource

https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/50841-new-zealand-continental-shelf/

Resource lineage

Statement

Maritime Boundaries


New Zealand has sovereign rights over a vast area of ocean, along with the fishery, mineral and petroleum resources that may exist in that area. The definition of the limits of these waters is a complex task that is undertaken by LINZ in conjunction with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( http://www.mfat.govt.nz/ ).

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other

dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG::4326

Metadata constraints

Use limitation

Copyright of this work is owned by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand


© LINZ

Use constraints
Copyright

Metadata constraints

Use limitation

Released by LINZ under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) with:


Following Attribution:


"Sourced from the LINZ Data Service and licensed for reuse under CC BY 4.0"


For details see https://www.linz.govt.nz/data/licensing-and-using-data/attributing-linz-data

Use constraints
License

Metadata

Metadata identifier
c250bd6a-dab0-e170-dc39-b2067cc71c3a

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation Electronic mail address
Resource provider

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand

hydro@linz.govt.nz

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Name

dataset

Date info (Revision)
2019-04-01

Metadata standard

Title

ANZLIC Metadata Profile: An Australian/New Zealand Profile of AS/NZS ISO 19115:2005, Geographic information - Metadata

Edition

1.1

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

ANZLIC Jurisdictions
New Zealand

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